Forbes June 3, 2024
Virgil Bretz

Virgil Bretz is co-founder and CEO of MacroHealth, a healthcare fintech platform.

Spend 30 seconds perusing any comment section, and you’re likely to conclude that Americans can disagree on anything. While common ground seems to have nearly disappeared, there is one agreement that crosses gender, politics, race and religion—healthcare costs in the United States are absurd.

In 2022, $4.5 trillion was spent on healthcare, twice as much per capita as peer nations. Even more frustrating, Americans aren’t getting what they pay for. While there have been countless legislative attempts to control costs, the results speak for themselves. This is largely because the proposed solutions to control costs across the industry are similar to our approach to patient care—designed to treat...

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